Courage only counts when you can count.

Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

We are sailing in different boats and possibly we may possess a superior boat

To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective—a virtuous society—America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

Queen can't work like any normal group. They utilise each others' talents to the fullest. A lot of the band's ideas are revolutionary, a lot of the style is revolutionary.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.